Bangladesh Forest Department

Strict oversight is vital to end the tree-cutting bonanza

Latest incident saw the startling transformation of Altadighi National Park

Forest Department’s leadership crucial for conservation

The Forest Department should further strengthen its leadership in biodiversity conservation by working on “conservation finance.”

Save Chunati Wildlife Sanctuary from encroachers

Authorities must take action against those destroying forests

Forests are vanishing acre by acre

Why are the authorities so negligent in protecting forests?

Stop the onslaught on Chunati Wildlife Sanctuary

Why has the Forest Department allowed it?

A forest faces further forays

The Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) has taken an initiative to build a 5km road through the Ramu reserve forest, a move that forest officials and environmentalists say will bring disaster.

Who wants a piece of forest?

Plans to build a prison on forestland show that the country is in environmental free-fall

Earth Day 2022 / Ending deforestation by 2030: An empty promise?

Bangladesh is amazingly green. Yet, historically, our natural forests have always been limited. In 2000, the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics estimated our total forest area to be 2.6 million hectares.

Electrocution of monkeys: Legal notice seeks removal of livewire from Mymensingh forest

People for Animal Welfare (PAW), an organisation dedicated to welfare of street animals, has served a legal notice to Bangladesh Forest Department and Bangladesh Rural Electrification Board after overhead electrical power lines installed inside Mymensingh’s Santoshpur Reserve Forest injured and killed monkeys in the forest.

May 8, 2024
May 8, 2024

Strict oversight is vital to end the tree-cutting bonanza

Latest incident saw the startling transformation of Altadighi National Park

February 7, 2024
February 7, 2024

Forest Department’s leadership crucial for conservation

The Forest Department should further strengthen its leadership in biodiversity conservation by working on “conservation finance.”

December 31, 2023
December 31, 2023

Save Chunati Wildlife Sanctuary from encroachers

Authorities must take action against those destroying forests

January 30, 2023
January 30, 2023

Forests are vanishing acre by acre

Why are the authorities so negligent in protecting forests?

January 15, 2023
January 15, 2023

Stop the onslaught on Chunati Wildlife Sanctuary

Why has the Forest Department allowed it?

October 15, 2022
October 15, 2022

A forest faces further forays

The Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) has taken an initiative to build a 5km road through the Ramu reserve forest, a move that forest officials and environmentalists say will bring disaster.

October 2, 2022
October 2, 2022

Who wants a piece of forest?

Plans to build a prison on forestland show that the country is in environmental free-fall

April 22, 2022
April 22, 2022

Ending deforestation by 2030: An empty promise?

Bangladesh is amazingly green. Yet, historically, our natural forests have always been limited. In 2000, the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics estimated our total forest area to be 2.6 million hectares.

January 9, 2020
January 9, 2020

Electrocution of monkeys: Legal notice seeks removal of livewire from Mymensingh forest

People for Animal Welfare (PAW), an organisation dedicated to welfare of street animals, has served a legal notice to Bangladesh Forest Department and Bangladesh Rural Electrification Board after overhead electrical power lines installed inside Mymensingh’s Santoshpur Reserve Forest injured and killed monkeys in the forest.

November 16, 2019
November 16, 2019

Cyclone Bulbul: 4,589 trees damaged in Sundarbans

At least 4,589 trees were damaged under the influence of Cyclone Bulbul in Sundarbans, according to a report prepared by Bangladesh Forest Department.